Author: Marie Gionet
Jane Toller talking about the Lumberjack Dinner, with Eric O’Brien.
This week only, the Municipality of Fort-Coulonge has informed its citizens that the garbage pickup, which is normally on Wednesdays, will instead take place this Thursday, January 24th. For more information, contact the municipality at 819-683-2259.
A freezing rain warning has been issued by Environment Canada for the Pontiac region. Two to four millimetres of freezing rain is expected for the Outaouais at the late afternoon today, which could make roads, streets, sidewalks and parking lots icy and slippery. Environment Canada suggests that drivers adapt their driving to changing road conditions.
Part of the Outaouais was affected by a major blackout Tuesday afternoon, affecting more than 7,000 residences in the region. According to the Hydro Quebec spokesperson Marie-Annick Gariépy, Hydro-Québec had to cut off electricity to an area in Wakefield to carry out an emergency repair in the transformer. “The transformer was from the seventies, so […]
The annual night celebrating feminism which gathers over 200 persons every year, the 2019 Salon de la Femme will be held on Friday, March 1st at the Pontiac Conference Center. International Women’s Day is on March 8th, and this event is to celebrate it. The main organizer of the event, Claudee Galipeau, gave a first […]
The Centre de formation professionnelle du Pontiac (CFP Pontiac) provided news about their cooking and secretarial-accounting programs, which were scheduled to begin this month. The organizers of the cooking class are hoping to get more registrations before starting the course and regarding the secretarial-accounting course, the start date has been postponed to February 18th, due […]
A study is being conducted in the municipalities of Bristol and Pontiac by researchers at the University of McGill, to assess the relationship between humans and nature entitled ”How people from Bristol and Pontiac feel nature makes their lives better”. The researcher conducting the study, Dalal Hanna, told CHIP in an interview her goal with […]
A study is being conducted in the municipalities of Bristol and Pontiac by researchers at the University of McGill, to assess the relationship between humans and nature entitled ’’How people from Bristol and Pontiac feel nature makes their lives better’’. The researcher conducting the study, Dalal Hanna, tells un all about it, in this interview […]
Guillaume Harvey, ambassador for Pontiac for Skiing at school, in an interview with Eric O’Brien.
The Caisse Desjardins des Rivières de Pontiac, which includes the branches in Fort-Coulonge and Chapeau, will have an upgrade this week, modernizing its ATMs. The Caisse’s general manager, Stéphane Labine, gives the details: Stephane clip The change were made today for the Fort-Coulonge branch, and will be made on Thursday for the Chapeau branch. Note […]